xeriko's attic

Looking the Second Life metaverse through the eyes of reality

Month: June 2011

  • Bitter-sweet birthday bash and other sheds

    This week, Linden Lab is celebrating Second Life’s 8th anniversary. Eight years, in technological terms, is an era. I’ve been around SL for half that time, and I can assure you, it still feels like 2007. Personally, I think that “shortage” of accomplishments, other than keeping the world going “round” and people logging in, is…

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  • Not water lilies, please

    The SL waterways are full of water lilies, as if the Nymphaeaceae were the only nice looking water plants in the world. Yeah, yeah, I know: they are very similar, the Nymphaeaceae (the water lily family) and the Nelumbonaceae (the lotus kind). Don’t look at me that way, I didn’t give them those names. So for a long…

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  • FF Trees

    Hardly you come along trees as sexy as these in SL. At 8 to 15 prims each, sure they aren’t the ultra low prim kind very common today. Yet, the particular details and overall appeal of Ferox Faber (FF) new tree set make them outstanding. One or two years ago, FF had a set of…

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